​The Parishioner

​It has not been a good summer. No, I am not talking about the weather that has been wonderful, or our congregation’s ministries, or the Pittsburgh Pirates. I am talking about the violence in Dallas and Baton Rouge, the “Lives Matter Movements,” the anger over the murder of police officers and the despair and fear felt in the Afro-American community mourning the killings of black men by white officers. I am talking about the death of innocent people in France and in other parts of Europe and the Middle East from terrorist’s attacks by Islamic radicals...